The best Carrot Cake EVER!

I don’t find myself baking very often, it’s so very precise and any deviation from the recipe can turn anything into a baking disaster. I tend to cook a bit more “free range” adding this and that, tweaking recipes really. But a conversation around the usual 4 year old’s (sorry 4 and a half year old!) protests at eating dinner resulted in me baking what I think may be the best cake ever! Big claim I know but this cake was so light and fluffy and just delicious!

After said 4 (and a half!) year old protested about eating carrot with her dinner, she and my husband proceeded to have a discussion about whether she would like carrot cake. He said of course (I mean who doesn’t like carrot cake!) and obviously she disagreed. He then suggested we buy a carrot cake the next day from a local bakery and see if she likes it. Buy?! Not likely when we had all the ingredients in the house! So that was Sat afternoon planned. I sat down with my cookbooks to find the perfect carrot cake recipe… and OMG did I find it! I dusted off my Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook and Supergirl and I got baking.